The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, ICIMOD, is a regional knowledge development and learning centre serving the eight regional member countries of the Hindu Kush-Himalayas – Afghanistan, Bangladesh,Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan – and based in Kathmandu, Nepal. Globalisation and climate change have an increasing influence on the stability of fragile mountain ecosystems and the livelihoods of mountain people. ICIMOD aims [...]
LKYSPP/IWP’s Expertise Established in 2004, the National University of Singapore’s LKYSPP is dedicated to educating and training future Asian policy makers and leaders and raising governance standards in the region. Recognizing Asia’s urgent need for more integrated water policies and better governance in the water sector, LKYSPP founded the IWP in 2008 with the mission [...]
Sanitation Japan Sanitation Consortium http://www.jsanic.org/index.html
IWMI’s Expertise IWMI is a nonprofit international research organization that strives to improve water and land resources management. A world leader in irrigation management policies, techniques, tools, and performance assessment, IWMI has helped government institutions, water user associations, farmer communities, and private sector organizations manage the impacts of irrigation on livelihoods, food security, health, the [...]
Pacific IWRM Resource Centre’s Expertise The Pacific IWRM Resource Centre supports the Pacific Partnership Initiative on Sustainable Water Management, which is a voluntary partnership of regional water and wastewater stakeholders dedicated to achieving sustainable water and wastewater management in the Pacific. The Pacific IWRM Resource Centre’s mission is to provide technical assistance to Pacific island [...]
Central Asia IWRM Resource Center’s Expertise The Central Asia IWRM Resource Center is an arm of the Scientific-Information Center of the Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia (SIC ICWC). ICWC is a nonprofit association of national water authorities from fi ve regional states committed to the cooperative management of transboundary water resources in [...]
IWC’s Expertise The International WaterCentre (IWC) is dedicated to providing the most advanced education and training, applied research and consulting activities to develop capacity and promote whole-of-water cycle approaches to water management around the world. The IWC is a joint venture of four leading Australian universities – The University of Queensland, Griffith University, Monash University [...]
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), established under an initiative of the Japanese government in 1998, is an international research institute conducting practical and innovative research for realising sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region. Expanding economic activities in this area are triggering a variety of drastic changes in the lives of people in this [...]
IRTCES’ Expertise Founded in 1984 under the auspices of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), IRTCES is devoted to research, training, and information sharing on erosion and sedimentation in rivers and river basins. IRTCES has conducted more than 100 research and consulting programs, [...]
CHIRB/YRCC’s Expertise CHIRB is hosted by the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (YRCC), an agency of the Ministry of Water Resources of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) mandated to sustainably manage the PRC’s great Yellow River, the mother of all Chinese rivers and the water source upon which the lives of over 100 million people [...]
TERI was formally established in 1974 with the purpose of tackling and dealing with the immense and acute problems that mankind is likely to face within in the years ahead on account of the gradual depletion of the earth’s finite energy resources which are largely non-renewable and on account of the existing methods of their [...]
The Mekong River Commission The Mekong River Commission (MRC) was formed on 5 April 1995 by an agreement between the governments of Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam. The four countries signed The Agreement on the Cooperation for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong River Basin and agreed on joint management of their shared water [...]
K-water’s Expertise K-water has more than 40 years’ experience managing water resources and regional water supply systems. ISO9001/14001-certified and a member of the United Nations Global Compact, K-water is committed to environmental responsibility and transparent and ethical governance as means of optimizing its long-term performance and finding new ways to maximize water resource utilization through [...]
CRBOM’s Expertise CRBOM is a newly created alliance of agencies of the Government of Indonesia, composed of the Ministry of Public Works’ Directorate General of Water Resources, the Ministry’s Research and Development Agency, and two corporate-type river basin organizations—Jasa Tirta Public Corporations I and II. These entities have decades of experience establishing and operating public-utility-type [...]
NAHRIM was established by the Government of Malaysia in response to the country’s increasing number of water-related challenges, including floods, drought events, deteriorating water quality in rivers and coastal bodies, competing users, erosion, accretion, sedimentation, and not least, the impending anticipated impacts of climate change on water.
ICHARM was established in March 2006 under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, is in charge of planning, managing, and safeguarding Singapore’s water resources.